An algal bloom has emerged near Antarctica, so large that it’s not just visible but prominent in satellite images.
The bloom, roughly 200 x 100 kilometers, has shown up in images taken by NASA’s Modis instrument on the Terra satellite. It has emerged off the coast of Mac Robertson Land and was identified by scientists from the …

Re: You forgot a life-form in the feeding frenzy food chain...

Re: You forgot a life-form in the feeding frenzy food chain...

Can you support either statement?

Yes, the algae consume CO2, and benefit from CO2. But we've nowhere near enough satellite observations (or Southern Ocean obs. period) to say how much effect Anthropogenic climate change has had on algal blooms.

As for, "will balance out over the next century or so", all our observations (paleoclimate, fossils) and theory show the time to "balance out" and recover are multiple millenia.